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During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalised forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals. The Cenozoic is just as much the age of savannas, the age of co-dependent flowering plants and insects, and the age of birds. [40]
Prehistoric animals of the Cenozoic Era. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Cenozoic brachiopods (2 C, 3 P ...
Synapsids (precursors to mammals) separate from sauropsids (reptiles) in late Carboniferous. [88] 305 Ma The Carboniferous rainforest collapse occurs, causing a minor extinction event, as well as paving the way for amniotes to become dominant over amphibians and seed plants over ferns and lycophytes. First diapsid reptiles (e.g. Petrolacosaurus ...
Pages in category "Cenozoic mammals" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. E. Evolution of the horse
[47] [48] Brain expansion (enlargement) between 0.8 and 0.2 Ma may have occurred due to the extinction of most African megafauna (which made humans feed from smaller prey and plants, which required greater intelligence due to greater speed of the former and uncertainty about whether the latter were poisonous or not), extreme climate variability ...
Life during the Cenozoic Era on Earth, ... Cenozoic animals (7 C, 1 P) C. ... Cenozoic plants (3 C, 6 P) Q. Quaternary life (8 C) T.
Figure 1:In mammals, the quadrate and articular bones are small and part of the middle ear; the lower jaw consists only of dentary bone.. While living mammal species can be identified by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands in the females, other features are required when classifying fossils, because mammary glands and other soft-tissue features are not visible in fossils.
Cenozoic animals of North America (10 C, 6 P) O. Cenozoic animals of Oceania (7 C, 6 P) S. Cenozoic animals of South America (8 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on ...